So what they're saying is that the Mitochondria, the organelles that use oxygen to generate ATP (the primary source of chemical energy in your body), cause death when they no longer get oxygen? I hope the Nobel prize committee is listening.
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GPLv3 Released
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Consider this possibility: If Solaris moves to GPLv3 while Linux is stuck with v2, Debian might adopt the Solaris kernel as their main kernel (after a long transition process), since it is more in line with their principles of creating a pure GNU system. And then, what will happen to the Debian derived systems (such as Ubuntu)? If Sun plays their cards right, they can effectively shift a big chunk of the Linux world to Solaris.
The first one of these being built, at the Texas Advanced Computing Center, is in fact running Linux, not Solaris (See this Register article). Sun will support both.
Don't worry, I'm sure this will be an opt-in feature. You won't need to enable it on your Windows machine (yes, there will be desktop component, why not), unless you want to upgrade to Vista SP1, or get IE8, or use Windows Update, Hotmail, or MSN messenger, or Word, or Outlook, or prevent WGA from deactivating your machine after a month.
Frankly, I'm surprised we haven't seen MS-TCP/IP yet (no, wait, marketing name "MS Live Connect"). A proprietary, "safe" networking protocol on top of the Internet as we know it that requires you to log-in and authenticate against their servers to use the Internet, uses their own DNS (by default, but you can change it if you're technically competent enough), and of course makes sure you're not doing anything that could interfere with MS DRM in any way.
Now it's your job, given the content and the topic of this post, to figure out if I'm being serious or sarcastic. Honestly, I am not sure which one it is.
Re:MS - I dare you to sue IBM first....
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Microsoft, Sue Me First
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MS is just jealous that IBM's stock price almost caught up to MS's
At close of market today, IBM's market capitalization was 158.94 billion Dollars. Microsoft's was 297.05 billion. Your definition of "almost" is rather loose.
hex("natalie portman") = 6e 61 74 61 6c 69 65 20 70 6f 72 74 6d 61 6e 00 Now she's mine! Those of you who invoke hot grits will be hearing from my lawyer.
I don't know whether, or how much, you'll see that bus bandwidth matter in the typical slashdotter workload (games).
When your motherboard comes with an extra HT socket into which you will be able to plug in an "acceleration coprocessor" (read: GPU/Physics processor), you'll see the value of bus bandwidth. PCI-Express is already fully utilized on high end video cards (for burst traffic), and the latency does not allow a pcie device to be used as a coprocessor, just a batch processor of relatively large jobs. AMD sees the future, both for the desktop and for the server environment, in special-purpose coprocessors plugged into the HyperTransport bus. Why do you think they bought ATI?
These email lapses and information destruction policies are becoming turning points in lawsuits all too often. It is absurd that major corporations are not required to keep all executive email on record, forever. Not just for lawsuits, more so to protect investors and the public against illegal and unethical behavior by the company's officers. The Sarbanes-Oxley act requires that records be made available to "Understand how significant transactions are initiated, authorized, supported, processed, and reported;", and I would think email is a significant component of this.
I've just added *.primidi.com (Roland's blog) to my adblock filters. I obviously never go there intentionally, but I've clicked on his links a few times without checking the submitter name. I suggest you all do the same.
Unfortunately, the ZDnet article linked is also written by our buddy Roland. I do wish that Slashdot would give me a way to avoid his crap (or, y'know, just not approve his stories). Either way, I think the boycottroland tag will help me in the future.
The parent was referring to this (bolded for your information):
You may not convey a covered work if you are a party to an arrangement with a third party that is in the business of distributing software, under which you make payment to the third party based on the extent of your activity of conveying the work, and under which the third party grants, to any of the parties who would receive the covered work from you, a patent license (a) in connection with copies of the covered work conveyed by you, and/or copies made from those, or (b) primarily for and in connection with specific products or compilations that contain the covered work, which license does not cover, prohibits the exercise of, or is conditioned on the non-exercise of any of the rights that are specifically granted to recipients of the covered work under this License[, unless you entered into that arrangement, or that patent license was granted, prior to March 28, 2007].
This bracketed segment is obviously intended to protect Novell. I cannot see any reason why the license should take special steps to protect ANY company or its pre-existing liabilities. The GPL does not have a responsibility to Novell, Novell has a responisibility to the GPL (more specifically, to the authors of GPL software they use). By inclusion of this exemption, it is allowing a special monopoly condition in the MS-Novell case that exactly manipulates the loophole they intended to close. This means that if I am a GPLv3-software author that desires the patent protection of the v3 license, I am somehow obliged to respect an agreement Novell and Microsoft made without my consent and allow them a free pass on the patent case.
This is not acceptable. The GPL will be attacked and any crack will be exploited. This is not a crack, this is leaving the door open. In fact, it makes Microsoft a clearinghouse of anti-GPL patents, allowing anyone (through proxy patent assignment to Microsoft) to attack users of GPLv3 software that passed through Novell (including SUSE, Gnome, Mono, and Samba), and allows Microsoft itself (through Novell) to propagate patent-encumbered (and therefore distribution-limited) GPL code.
WalMart would not be able to compete on price, but would have to work on selection (which they have) and atmosphere (which they often lack)
You're confused. Walmart prices would remain lower than everyone else's. It will now be the manufacturer that sets the prices. However, Walmart is still strongarming the manufacturers by choosing whether or not to carry their products. So the manufacturer will set a different price for Walmart than for everyone else or lose out on a huge amount of sales. They'll get around laws that everyone's prices must be the same by selling alternate versions of the same product (in fact, they already do this) at Walmart. What in reality would happen is that now it will be illegal for anyone to compete with Walmart on price.
the Federal Computer Fraud and Abuse Act and California Computer Data Access and Fraud Act, Unfair Competition, Intentional and Negligent Interference with Prospective Economic Advantage and Civil Conspiracy
Could someone translate that to English, please? I can't read German.
You should have seen the original:
Der Federalkomputerfraudundabußeact und Kaliforniakomputerdataacceßundfraudact, Unfairkompetition, Intenzionalnegligentunterference wit Prozpectiveeconomikadvantage und Civilkonspiracy.
Let me get this straight: you have a machine that you're obviously worried about being stolen configured to have passwordless ssh access to your remote machine? May I recommend HTTP instead?
Even worse is that there's multiple and sometimes incompatible versions of SSH out there - what may come with one system isn't guaranteed to work with another. Can you get the OS vendor to jump and have a man there within 30 minutes to fix it if a supported OS function doesn't work? Yes. Can you get the OS vendor to jump and have a man there within 30 minutes if OpenSSH doesn't work? No. Sometimes it's as simple as that, unfortunately.
Sun ships its own ssh server and client. They are modified versions of OpenSSH, and are compatible with OpenSSH. If you have a support contract with Sun and you find a bug with their ssh or a problem it's causing with other software, they will help you debug the problem, they will fix it, they will test the changes to make sure they haven't broken anything else, and they will help you deploy it. Anything else you need?
Ogg Vorbis is gaining popularity mostly because of the price per unit. When you make millions of dolls a year and you have to pay a $0.10 licensing fee per unit if it plays voice prompts in MP3 format, that starts to get pretty expensive. If WMA, AAC, MP3, or any other codec was cheaper and did not require significanly more flash memory to store, they'd be using that instead.
The problem is that Ethernet is always signalling, not just when transferring data. Since Ethernet uses Manchester encoding, the clock signal for the bus is encoded into the data signal, so even when sending out a steady stream of zeros, the signal is constantly alternating. That is, when your workstation is idle 99% of the time, it's still sending out a 1000-Mbps idle stream (if I recall correctly it's just a stream of 10101010...) and wasting power. What they're trying to do is to be able to clock down the signal unless data is actually being transferred and save quite a lot of power. This is a perfectly reasonable thing to do, let's hope equipment that supports this gets out there soon.
how many Libraries of Congress you can fit into an elephant with this technology.
So you want to know the LoC / metric pachyderm of this technology? I'm not sure, but don't go by what it says on the box, they define a kilo-Library of Congress to be 1000 LoCs, not 1024.
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So what they're saying is that the Mitochondria, the organelles that use oxygen to generate ATP (the primary source of chemical energy in your body), cause death when they no longer get oxygen? I hope the Nobel prize committee is listening.
Consider this possibility:
If Solaris moves to GPLv3 while Linux is stuck with v2, Debian might adopt the Solaris kernel as their main kernel (after a long transition process), since it is more in line with their principles of creating a pure GNU system. And then, what will happen to the Debian derived systems (such as Ubuntu)? If Sun plays their cards right, they can effectively shift a big chunk of the Linux world to Solaris.
...but will it run linux?
The first one of these being built, at the Texas Advanced Computing Center, is in fact running Linux, not Solaris (See this Register article). Sun will support both.
So where does the turbine fit in?
Great, where can I download a boot disk?
Don't worry, I'm sure this will be an opt-in feature. You won't need to enable it on your Windows machine (yes, there will be desktop component, why not), unless you want to upgrade to Vista SP1, or get IE8, or use Windows Update, Hotmail, or MSN messenger, or Word, or Outlook, or prevent WGA from deactivating your machine after a month.
Frankly, I'm surprised we haven't seen MS-TCP/IP yet (no, wait, marketing name "MS Live Connect"). A proprietary, "safe" networking protocol on top of the Internet as we know it that requires you to log-in and authenticate against their servers to use the Internet, uses their own DNS (by default, but you can change it if you're technically competent enough), and of course makes sure you're not doing anything that could interfere with MS DRM in any way.
Now it's your job, given the content and the topic of this post, to figure out if I'm being serious or sarcastic. Honestly, I am not sure which one it is.
MS is just jealous that IBM's stock price almost caught up to MS's
At close of market today, IBM's market capitalization was 158.94 billion Dollars. Microsoft's was 297.05 billion. Your definition of "almost" is rather loose.
hex("natalie portman") = 6e 61 74 61 6c 69 65 20 70 6f 72 74 6d 61 6e 00
Now she's mine! Those of you who invoke hot grits will be hearing from my lawyer.
I don't know whether, or how much, you'll see that bus bandwidth matter in the typical slashdotter workload (games).
When your motherboard comes with an extra HT socket into which you will be able to plug in an "acceleration coprocessor" (read: GPU/Physics processor), you'll see the value of bus bandwidth. PCI-Express is already fully utilized on high end video cards (for burst traffic), and the latency does not allow a pcie device to be used as a coprocessor, just a batch processor of relatively large jobs. AMD sees the future, both for the desktop and for the server environment, in special-purpose coprocessors plugged into the HyperTransport bus. Why do you think they bought ATI?
theres latin grammar police in slashdot too now eh ?
If the grammar police can prevent such horrors as the sentence above, I welcome them.
These email lapses and information destruction policies are becoming turning points in lawsuits all too often. It is absurd that major corporations are not required to keep all executive email on record, forever. Not just for lawsuits, more so to protect investors and the public against illegal and unethical behavior by the company's officers. The Sarbanes-Oxley act requires that records be made available to "Understand how significant transactions are initiated, authorized, supported, processed, and reported;", and I would think email is a significant component of this.
Do the same adblock trick for zdnet. Does zdnet produce anything worth reading?
You make a good point. I just added blogs.zdnet.com to my blocking list, as it is entirely useless.
I've just added *.primidi.com (Roland's blog) to my adblock filters. I obviously never go there intentionally, but I've clicked on his links a few times without checking the submitter name. I suggest you all do the same.
Unfortunately, the ZDnet article linked is also written by our buddy Roland. I do wish that Slashdot would give me a way to avoid his crap (or, y'know, just not approve his stories). Either way, I think the boycottroland tag will help me in the future.
If we can hit that bulls-eye, the rest of the dominos will fall like a house of cards. Checkmate!
-- Zapp Brannigan
This bracketed segment is obviously intended to protect Novell. I cannot see any reason why the license should take special steps to protect ANY company or its pre-existing liabilities. The GPL does not have a responsibility to Novell, Novell has a responisibility to the GPL (more specifically, to the authors of GPL software they use). By inclusion of this exemption, it is allowing a special monopoly condition in the MS-Novell case that exactly manipulates the loophole they intended to close. This means that if I am a GPLv3-software author that desires the patent protection of the v3 license, I am somehow obliged to respect an agreement Novell and Microsoft made without my consent and allow them a free pass on the patent case.
This is not acceptable. The GPL will be attacked and any crack will be exploited. This is not a crack, this is leaving the door open. In fact, it makes Microsoft a clearinghouse of anti-GPL patents, allowing anyone (through proxy patent assignment to Microsoft) to attack users of GPLv3 software that passed through Novell (including SUSE, Gnome, Mono, and Samba), and allows Microsoft itself (through Novell) to propagate patent-encumbered (and therefore distribution-limited) GPL code.
WalMart would not be able to compete on price, but would have to work on selection (which they have) and atmosphere (which they often lack)
You're confused. Walmart prices would remain lower than everyone else's. It will now be the manufacturer that sets the prices. However, Walmart is still strongarming the manufacturers by choosing whether or not to carry their products. So the manufacturer will set a different price for Walmart than for everyone else or lose out on a huge amount of sales. They'll get around laws that everyone's prices must be the same by selling alternate versions of the same product (in fact, they already do this) at Walmart. What in reality would happen is that now it will be illegal for anyone to compete with Walmart on price.
I don't know, tastes more like chicken to me.
Could someone translate that to English, please? I can't read German.
You should have seen the original:
scp -q ~/.locate-laptop remote_user@108.169.242.00:~
Let me get this straight: you have a machine that you're obviously worried about being stolen configured to have passwordless ssh access to your remote machine? May I recommend HTTP instead?
strcmp confirms it, SAMP is greater than LAMP!
Even worse is that there's multiple and sometimes incompatible versions of SSH out there - what may come with one system isn't guaranteed to work with another. Can you get the OS vendor to jump and have a man there within 30 minutes to fix it if a supported OS function doesn't work? Yes. Can you get the OS vendor to jump and have a man there within 30 minutes if OpenSSH doesn't work? No. Sometimes it's as simple as that, unfortunately.
Sun ships its own ssh server and client. They are modified versions of OpenSSH, and are compatible with OpenSSH. If you have a support contract with Sun and you find a bug with their ssh or a problem it's causing with other software, they will help you debug the problem, they will fix it, they will test the changes to make sure they haven't broken anything else, and they will help you deploy it. Anything else you need?
are we talking about not wanting girls on xbox live?
No, we're talking about getting rid of squeakers.
Ogg Vorbis is gaining popularity mostly because of the price per unit. When you make millions of dolls a year and you have to pay a $0.10 licensing fee per unit if it plays voice prompts in MP3 format, that starts to get pretty expensive. If WMA, AAC, MP3, or any other codec was cheaper and did not require significanly more flash memory to store, they'd be using that instead.
The problem is that Ethernet is always signalling, not just when transferring data. Since Ethernet uses Manchester encoding, the clock signal for the bus is encoded into the data signal, so even when sending out a steady stream of zeros, the signal is constantly alternating. That is, when your workstation is idle 99% of the time, it's still sending out a 1000-Mbps idle stream (if I recall correctly it's just a stream of 10101010...) and wasting power. What they're trying to do is to be able to clock down the signal unless data is actually being transferred and save quite a lot of power. This is a perfectly reasonable thing to do, let's hope equipment that supports this gets out there soon.
how many Libraries of Congress you can fit into an elephant with this technology.
So you want to know the LoC / metric pachyderm of this technology? I'm not sure, but don't go by what it says on the box, they define a kilo-Library of Congress to be 1000 LoCs, not 1024.